Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-08-05
Compiled for the Evening Capital"
ANNIVERSARY EVENTS.
"News, Old ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
BY ALBERT T. soUTHwICK.
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1SS4-Death of William Henry Hunt, u.
s. Minister to Rnssia, at st. Peters
burg. He was native of Chsrles
ton, 5. c., born in 1924, and during
the Civil War was one of the few
Southern men who remained true to
the Union.
March 3.
1743-Death of Peter Faneuil in Boston,
Mass. He was born in New Rochelle
New York, in 1900. Building Fan
euil Hall-known as the Cradle of
Liberty" he presented ii to the city
of Boston. During the Revolution,
it was the accepted place of meeting
for the patriots, from whence il de
rived its name. The injury offered 1t
by a wanton British soldiery rendered
it the more dear to the people of that
city. 1t still stands in excellent pres
ervation.
1S06-Death of Rev. Samuel Harvey ID.
d., the poet, and pastor of South
Church. He was born in Farming
ham, Mass. on August 4, 1927.
1820-Passage of the missouri Compro-
mise Bill.
1823-Birth of DR.. Dio Lewis, author and
reformer, New York Graduating at
the Harvard Medical School in Boston
he praciiced medicine at Port Byron
and at Buffalo, New York. He pub
lished medical monthly in the lat
ter city in which he deprecated the
use of drugs, and advocated the in
PRODUCTION of physical exercise as
part of public education. In 1868
he settled in Boston and founded an
institution for training teachers in his
new system of education, which he
had beeen advocating since 1855. In
1864 he established in Lexington,
Mass, an academy for young ladies,
in which all former rules of govern.
ment were ahondoned. In Septem.
ber, 1868, the buildings were burned
and year later the school was given
up. Afterward he frequently lectur-
cd, principally on hygienic topics and
temperance reform. Among the
works published by him were New
Gymnas les. " Weak Lungs and How
to Make Them Strong" Talks
About Peoples Stomachs." "O0r
Girls, )" and ''Chats with Young Wo-
men.
He continued preaching his new
system of training up to the day of
his death, and generally published
periodical in which he set forth his
peculiar views About 1874, he pub.
lshed in Philadelphia for time
weekly called T0-Day. In 1883 he re-
moved to New York, where he began
the publication of Dio Leois' Month
TO- and few months before his death
was editing a serial with the quaint
title of Nuggets. He died in Yonkers,
New York, on the morning of May
from an injurg caused by falling frcm
his carriage.
March 4.
162S-Charter granted to Massachusetts
Bay Colony.
17S9-The United tates Government un.
der the Constitution, went into effect,
with New York city as the seat of
government.
1792-Birth of DR.. Isaac Lea, in Whining.
ton, Delaware. When youth he be.
gan the collection of minerals, fossils,
ETC., and the observance of the rocks
of Pennsylvania. In 1915 he was
elected a member Of the Academy of
Natural Science of Philadelphia.
Two years later he published his first
contribution on the minerals in the
vicinity of Philadelphia, and from
that time up to the year 1875 he was
n regular contributor tO Sclcnl1fIc Jour-
nails In 1927 he began a series Of
memoirs on new forms of fresh
water and land shells, which was
continued up 10 the time Of his death.
about 1880. DIR. Lea was elected a mem
Der of the Geological Society of Lon
don, the Linn@n Society OF Bor-
deaux, the Imperial Society Of Natur
al History of Moscow, and an honora.
ry member Of the Asiatic Society Of
Bengaland. At the time of his death
he was an honorary member of nearly
all the scientific, philosophic and
historical societies of the world. He
WIS president of the Academy Of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
from 1853 TO 1853. A collecti n of
minerals and geological specimens
made by his own exertions-those of
pal8ontology a-d recent shells were
addtd-which, at the time of his
death had grown 10 great magnitude;
that of fresh-water shells is entirely
unequa'led, the family of unionisa
alone consisting Of $500 selected
| specimens of both sexes, all ages and
varieties, and of wide geogr sphical
distribution. For almost century he
gave distinguished service to natural
science His death occurred In Phila
delphia on December s, 1886
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